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May 1, 2001 · This definitive treatment of a hugely important artist makes an indispensable contribution to the art history of Impressionism and the roots of modernism. 135 color and 165 b/w illustrations. Originally published in hardcover under the title: Claude Monet: Life and Work.
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Claude Monet was a key figure in the Impressionist movement that transformed French painting in the second half of the nineteenth century. Throughout his long career, Monet consistently depicted the landscape and leisure activities of Paris and its environs as well as the Normandy coast.
- Childhood
- Early Training
- Mature Period
- Late Years and Death
- The Legacy of Claude Monet
Born in Paris, Oscar Claude Monet moved at the age of five to Le Havre, a seaside town in northern France. His father was a successful grocer that later turned to shipping. His mother died when he was 15. The ocean and rugged coastline of Northern France had a profound effect on him at an early age, and he would often run away from school to go for...
A pivotal experience occurred in 1856 when Monet became friends with Eugéne Boudin, a landscape painter famous for his scenes of northern French coastal towns. Boudin encouraged him to paint outdoors, and this en plein airtechnique changed Monet's concept of how art could be created: "It was as if a veil was torn from my eyes; I had understood. I g...
Obliged to serve in the military, in 1861 Monet was sent to Algiers. Like Eugène Delacroix before him, the north African environment stimulated Monet and affected his artistic and personal outlook. Coming home to Le Havre after his service, his "final education of the eye" was provided by the Dutch landscape and marine artist Johan Jongkind. Follow...
Ultimately, Monet preferred to be alone with nature, creating his paintings rather than participating in theoretical or critical battles within the artistic and cultural scene of Paris. Whereas he traveled throughout the 1880s and 1890 to places like London, Venice, Norway, and around France - in 1908 he settled for the remainder of his life in Giv...
Monet's extraordinarily long life and large artistic output befit the enormity of his contemporary popularity. Impressionism, for which he is a pillar, continues to be one of the most popular artistic movement as evidenced by its massive popular consumption in the form of calendars, postcards, and posters. Of course, Monet's paintings command top p...
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- November 14, 1840
- Paris, France
- December 5, 1926
Feb 9, 2021 · Cobalt violets are based on various salts of the element cobalt. In Monet’s time these were truly modern products of the chemical industry, appearing as artist’s pigments only in the second half of the 19th century. For Water Lilies, Monet used a light-colored type composed of cobalt arsenate. Like viridian, it carried a high price tag ...
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- 2021
Oct 12, 1992 · 4.67. 9 ratings1 review. Monet is one of the greatest Impressionists as well as being the most popular, yet books about him have concentrated either on aesthetic or on social aspects of his work without attempting a synthesis. Here Virginia Spate provides a full interpretation of Monet's paintings, examining the various ways in which they can ...
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Books. The Colour of Time: Claude Monet. Virginia Spate. Thames and Hudson, 1992 - Impressionism (Art) - 348 pages. Study of the work, life and times of this famous and influential French impressionist painter, documenting the evolution of his style over his long career. Draws information on his life and work from recently published catalogues ...
May 4, 2001 · Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd. ISBN: 9780500282731. Number of pages: 348. Dimensions: 300 x 265 mm. MEDIA REVIEWS. "Acclaim for Claude Monet: The Colour of Time 'Claude Monet: The Colour of Time astonishes the reader with the extents of its probing enquiry into the work of Claude Monet and the times in which he lived, and renders all others ...
